Where Are You

Where are you Black cat? whose bright yellow eyes stare at me with wisdom within whose long curling tail slaps my legs whose thick coat collects brambles and dust Where are you Proud horse? whose soft snorts fill my ears whose delicate nose nuzzles my hands whose bounding gaits carry me Where are you Brown bird? whose quick pecking beak gobbles up seeds whose round body rests in the branch of a tree whose beating wings glide through the air Where are you Shy deer? whose long legs hit the soft ground as you flee whose white tail bobs in the wind whose quick beating heart pounds like a drum Where are you Flat fish? whose bright scales shimmer in the light whose puckering lips open and close, gasping for air whose darting fins flick the water

We are gone Gone like firesmoke Far away from you world of concrete and glass of loud music and talking and plastic We live in another world of still streams and green earth of waving trees and crying gulls and rain.

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